StockTwits sentiment is the share of messages tagged "bullish" about a stock on the StockTwits social platform over the last 24 hours — a real-time thermometer for retail-trader mood.
As a rough guide: above about 60% is predominantly bullish retail mood, below about 40% is predominantly bearish, and the middle is mixed. Example (illustrative): 82 of 100 tagged messages bullish is an unusually one-sided, euphoric crowd — an extreme worth noticing precisely because it is rare.
Crowds are most confident exactly when they are most wrong. Extreme bullishness (above ~80%) can mean a stock is crowded and vulnerable to any disappointment; extreme bearishness (below ~20%) can mark a washed-out bottom where selling is exhausted.
It is the share of tagged messages marked bullish over the last 24 hours, so 70% means seven of ten tagged posts were optimistic.
Crowds are most confident when most wrong. Extreme bullishness can mean a crowded, vulnerable stock; extreme bearishness a washed-out bottom.
Noisy and easy to game — it reflects the loudest online retail traders, not the institutions that move the most money.
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Educational research only — not investment advice.